SERIES: A Guide to Developing GitHub Apps on .NET For the last couple of weeks, I have been experimenting with creating a GitHub App using .NET. I’ve been pursuing this because I have an idea for an integration that could be interesting, and it also provides a real-world scenario to keep my skills fresh. I […]
Author: Steve Gordon
Steve Gordon is a Pluralsight author, 7x Microsoft MVP, and a .NET engineer at Elastic where he maintains the .NET APM agent and related libraries. Steve is passionate about community and all things .NET related, having worked with ASP.NET for over 21 years.
Steve enjoys sharing his knowledge through his blog, in videos and by presenting talks at user groups and conferences. Steve is excited to participate in the active .NET community and founded .NET South East, a .NET Meetup group based in Brighton. He enjoys contributing to and maintaining OSS projects. You can find Steve on most social media platforms as @stevejgordon
Disabling Recording of an Activity (span) in .NET OpenTelemetry Instrumentation
I’ve recently been building some hobby code to dogfood the various observability tooling we develop at Elastic. Additionally, I’ve been interested in identifying the pain points of using our products as well as the .NET instrumentation libraries (from System.Diagnostics) used to instrument code in an OpenTelemetry-compatible way. Recording Activities in .NET In today’s short post, […]
Understanding System.Diagnostics DiagnosticSource and DiagnosticListener (Part 1)
Throughout its history, .NET has evolved various mechanisms to “log” diagnostic information inside applications and libraries, including TraceSource, EventSource, ILogger, and DiagnosticSource, the subject of this post. TraceSource is a legacy option and is rarely used in new code. ILogger is a simple structured logging abstraction that is well suited to many applications, although it […]
Authenticating a .NET GitHub App using a JSON Web Token (JWT)
SERIES: A Guide to Developing GitHub Apps on .NET In this post, I cover the steps required to create and sign a JSON Web Token, herein abbreviated as JWT, to authenticate a GitHub App built using .NET. I want to state clearly up front that I’m learning as I go while experimenting with a hobby […]
Profiling Memory Allocations on Linux using the JetBrains dotMemory Command-Line Profiler
In a previous post (Automating memory profiling with the JetBrains dotMemory Profiler API), I described the steps that could be used to automate the collection of memory snapshots and profiling data by using the JetBrains Profiler API NuGet package. In that post, we triggered the profiling session using the dotMemory application on Windows. As part […]